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Not even straight-laced Sam the Eagle can resist the funky riffs of Kool & the Gang when laid down by The Electric Mayhem. Read the rest

'Ghost hunters claim to have captured one of the most "impressive" and "clear" photographs of an apparition ever,' reports UK newspaper The Daily Mirror. Read the rest

The gameplay video preview starts out mildly unimpressive, showing soldiers in their dozens milling around, unable to even go diagonally. Then it starts zooming out. Read the rest

News sites will soon be "wire services" competing in social networks' internal attention markets, writes Ezra Klein. Scary! Read the rest

We talk a lot about women, work and emotional labor these days—how do women-focused career games like Diner Dash or Kim Kardashian: Hollywood factor into the conversation? Read the rest

Be careful you don't get branded as overweight or a slow thinker; be ready for dating by age 11, and always answer the clarion call of the mall's command in some of the most unsettling old board games for girls. Read the rest

Nobody likes the beach ball of death. Maybe something cuter would help. Here's alternate option if that does not strike Tim Cook's fancy: (more…)

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies has released a free PDF anthology of images of earth's protected wonders, like development right up to the edge of New Zealand’s Mount Egmont National Park. Read the rest

Goldshifteh Farahani and Morteza Esmaili played this beautiful live duet in Paris earlier this summer. The video is not great, so if you want to see Goldshifteh playing solo, here are a few other clips: Read the rest

Interrogate video footage of an aging game developer owl and solve the mystery of whatever it is he's trying to say. Try the search terms "cocaine", "murder" and "ubisoft." Read the rest

My friend, the artist Mitch O'Connell, wrote, "I decided to stop waiting for Sir Paul to give me a ring requesting that I design his tour poster, and just went ahead and whipped one up. Read the rest

Windell Oskay is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, a Silicon Valley company that has designed and produced specialized electronics and robotics kits since 2007. Read the rest

"There's one person nobody can resist and that's a baby."

The red hot nickel ball (RHNB) has been tested on a variety of materials. This video, which shows the RHNB causing a weird reaction in floral foam (which, incidentally, is a lot of fun to jab with your thumb), is the best RHNB video yet.

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." – Aristotle

Does it sound like fun to be stopped by police for doing a good deed so they can issue you a scary looking $10 off coupon for shitty pizza? And also be recorded on video? Then head over to Denver and start behaving like a model citizen for your reward.[via]

We stopped the automaton cold. Read the rest

In America, chicken has better health care than you. Read the rest

By default, Microsoft gets to see your location, keystrokes and browser history -- and listen to your microphone, and some of that stuff is shared with "trusted [by Microsoft, not by you] partners." Read the rest

This could be you.Lots of board games from the 20th century just plain suck. Monopoly and Risk are positive-feedback games where the first person to gain a slight advantage inevitably becomes the runaway winner a couple of tedious hours later. Read the rest

A San Francisco Police Captain wanted cyclists to obey the law, so they did. Traffic was immediately snarled.Read the rest

Rostam Notarki is being sentenced to seven years in prison for shoving a shabby-looking man out of his pub with an ironing board. Read the rest

A point of American pride, our national park system, is sadly underfunded and lost. The Seattle Times shares one piece of the story, corporate sponsorship.Read the rest

What happens when female players slam tilt their way into the bright, loud world of pinball? Read the rest

New leaked documents published by Wikileaks show that the US spy agency conducted surveillance operations against Japan's top government officials, prioritizing finance and trade ministers, as well as the Japanese central bank and two private-sector energy companies. -

"Don't you know, that I have never been loved like this before."

Monday returns with yet another a satellite transmission from Offworld, highlighting our favorite features and games from last week, as well as the stories throughout the galaxy that got us talking Read the rest

Andy Kroll tried, and emerged with a darkly humorous account of its essential impossibility: beyond soundbites about Mexicans and business, there is virtually nothing to see. Read the rest

Gentlemen! Never let children wear your hats. Jamie Peck explores the history of the fedora, an excellent garment born in female empowerment that became "a widely recognized symbol of douchebaggery" thanks to horrid young men. Read the rest

Infrared photography (see Fortherock's hummingbird above) is beautiful. Read the rest

That's not what he says—all porn sites will have to gather and retain proof of customer identity. But everything leaks, so it's what he meant. Read the rest

Who isn't? Read the rest

To make sure he couldn't be caught, Ely Sakhai bought the original first—a Rembrandt of enormous value. This "incredibly brazen" con almost worked, writes Anthony M. Read the rest

It's like Bad USB, with extra Thunderbolt badness: Web-based attacks can insert undetectable malicious software into a Mac's UEFI/BIOS, which spreads to other machines by infecting Thunderbolt and USB devices. Read the rest

I don’t know about you, but despite my best efforts, my armpits stink to high heaven by the end of the day. Read the rest

What happens when a Japanese fighter pilot crash-lands on a remote Hawaiian island after the attack on Pearl Harbor? Read the rest

I’m not much of a chef, but I really enjoy my newest culinary purchase. It’s the Bitterman Himalayan Salt Block, and it sure is pretty. Read the rest

Mrwhosetheboss made a down-and-dirty holographic projector for a smartphone using a plastic jewel case and special video files. Try it yourself! Read the rest

The GOP front-runner said, "My sons love to hunt. [...] Eric is a hunter and I would say he puts it on a par with golf, if not ahead of golf. My other son, Don, is a hunter. They're great marksman, great shots, they love it." Read the rest

They Live stars Rowdy Roddy Piper, who died July 31. It's one of the greatest political sci-fi films of all time, and fittingly, it's the opening film analyzed by Slavoj Žižek in The Pervert's Guide to Ideology. Read the rest

Parisian photographer Jackie Tadeoni created this wonderful series of superheroes (and Snow White!) as subjects of Baroque Flemish portraits. Read the rest

Manipulating safe locks can be fun and profitable! It also takes practice. I recently bought a used safe combination dial lock and mounted it to a piece of reclaimed wood. Read the rest

Somewhere, nestled in the woods near Santa Rosa, California, Ryan Powers came across this relic from a time better left forgotten.This Apple /// serves as a dark reminder of the days when computer science pioneers were outcasts, and forced to hide in the wild, with little more than a 6502 assembler to keep them warm.

"Those good old lovely songs. Those sweet soul music songs."

I’m 18 and still have so much fun sitting at my kitchen table doing arts and crafts. One of my favorite craft kits I own is an awesome and simple pin-making kit called the Sukie Button Factory. Read the rest